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Spontaneous Lorentz Violation, Nambu-Goldstone Modes, and Massive Modes

High Energy Physics - Theory 2017-08-23 v1

Abstract

In any theory with spontaneous symmetry breaking, it is important to account for the massless Nambu-Goldstone and massive Higgs modes. In this short review, the fate of these modes is examined for the case of a bumblebee model, in which Lorentz symmetry is spontaneously broken.

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@article{arxiv.1008.1805,
  title  = {Spontaneous Lorentz Violation, Nambu-Goldstone Modes, and Massive Modes},
  author = {Robert Bluhm},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1008.1805},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

5 pages. Presented at the Fifth Meeting on CPT and Lorentz Symmetry, Bloomington, Indiana, June 28-July 2, 2010

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